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Guardiola out again - Lyon is waiting for Bayern

2020-08-16T04:31:19.160Z


No reunion with Pep: FC Bayern will not face Manchester City and ex-coach Guardiola in the semi-finals of the Champions League - but Olympique Lyon. It's going to be a Franco-German week.


No reunion with Pep: FC Bayern will not face Manchester City and ex-coach Guardiola in the semi-finals of the Champions League - but Olympique Lyon. It's going to be a Franco-German week.

Lisbon (dpa) - Pep Guardiola had certainly imagined it differently. Instead of challenging his ex-club FC Bayern to a gigantic duel in the semifinals, the Spanish star coach with Manchester City fell out of the quarter-finals against the brave outsider Olympique Lyon.

THE GAME: Man City played dominantly as usual, with a lot of possession, but in a different basic order. The Skyblues did not radiate danger. On the contrary, the city stars seemed unsettled. Maxwel Cornet (24th) used that to lead. Only after an hour did Guardiola switch again, Manchester massively increased the pressure and put Lyon on the defensive. The compensation by Kevin De Bruyne was therefore not undeserved (69th). But Lyon did not give up. A quick counterattack was enough to renew the lead from substitute Moussa Dembélé (79th), who finally knocked City out shortly before the end. "We played well, we had more shots, more of everything," Guardiola said on Sky. "But it wasn't good enough. (...) We lost. So the plan wasn't good."

THE SCENE OF THE GAME: Guardiola clapped her hands over her head, fell to her knees and desperately plucked out a few blades of grass. It was the seconds in which the renewed Lyon lead fell. The Pep plan to continue to put pressure on with the usual basic order and shoot the 2: 1 was over. After the game, Guardiola congratulated his counterpart Rudi Garcia, but looked more and more stunned with every step through the almost deserted Estádio José Alvalade. As in the past two years, the Spaniard's quarter-finals are over for the Spaniard. Too little - also for the demands of the club owners from Abu Dhabi.

THE OPPONENT OF BAVARIA: So Lyon. Only very few experts would have expected this before the round of 16. But then OL threw the Italian record champions Juventus Turin around superstar Cristiano Ronaldo from the competition. The self-sacrificing defensive battle against City was decisive. And the ideas of trainer Rudi Garcia. He only brought Dembélé in the 75th minute for the completely exhausted Memphis Depay. "We know we can play a lot of football," said the match winner. On Wednesday (9 p.m.), the German record champions are the absolute favorites after beating FC Barcelona 8-2. "We have to be ready," said Dembélé.

GERMAN-FRENCH FRIENDSHIP: For the first time in the history of the Champions League, two German and two French clubs are in the semi-finals - and fans in both nations can hope for the big coup for the final on 23 August. Before Bayern's game on Wednesday, RB Leipzig will compete against French champions Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday (9 p.m.).

© dpa-infocom, dpa: 200816-99-183967 / 2

Source: merkur

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